Dr. James McAdoo, who performs liposuction, Brazilian butt lifts, and other cosmetic surgery at storefront clinics in Miami, was charged with medical malpractice by the Florida health department involving a surgery that led to the 2016 death of Heather Meadows, a 29-year-old woman from West Virginia.

A new county-level report of women’s health in Florida, released Tuesday, says mortality rates for heart disease and lung and breast cancer have declined, but suicide rates and poorer mental health effects have gone up.

After two children died of a rare eye cancer in the same week while under the care of Dr. Timothy Murray, a renowned ocular oncologist, the parents sued Murray, a neurooncologist, Dr. Ziad Khatib, and Nicklaus Children's Hospital for malpractice.

Despite a new law that sought to resolve challenges to the state's trauma system, Nicklaus Children's Hospital is suing the Florida Department of Health over a clause that would enable Kendall Regional Medical Center to operate a Level I trauma center.

Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration, which oversees the state's Medicaid program, announced a moratorium on enrollment of behavior analysis providers in Miami-Dade and Broward. Officials said the moratorium is needed to stem fraud and abuse.

William Lamson was born with a devastating form of autism that caused him to obsessively and explosively strike himself. But there was no one to protect Lamson from his caregivers at Carlton Palms in Mount Dora, Florida.

Carlton Palms, which cares for Florida residents with severe disabilities, has generated a steady barrage of complaints for years. But Florida officials Thursday made a crucial move toward shutting the home and told people with relatives in the home a solution is close at hand.

Jackson Health System's $1.5 billion building plan includes new facilities and other improvements. The upgrades will help the public hospital compete with South Florida's private and nonprofit medical centers, administrators said.

On the one-year anniversary of House vote to pass the American Health Care Act, known as AHCA, Democrats are spending millions to remind voters in districts like Carlos Curbelo's that their congressman voted to repeal Obamacare, the sweeping healthcare law passed solely by Democrats in 2009.

Climate change is set to make Miami warmer and wetter for more of the year, making the region an even more friendly home for mosquitoes, some of whom could bear diseases like Zika, Yellow Fever and Dengue.

Nicklaus Children's Hospital will be one of a handful in the country to offer a fast turn-around on genome sequencing that can be a key to saving infants with rare and hard-to-diagnose genetic disorders.

An experimental therapy that uses antibodies to stop the spread of Zika in monkeys is not effective at preventing pregnant women from transmitting the virus to their fetuses, University of Miami scientists reported today in the journal Nature Communications.

State regulators issued an immediate moratorium on admissions Friday for Floridian Gardens Assisted Living Facility in Miami, a 180-bed elder care center operated by the owner of the Hollywood nursing home where a dozen residents died after Hurricane Irma.

The City of Miami filed a lawsuit in state court Monday alleging deceptive marketing and unlawful distribution of opioids by pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies. The companies deny the claims and have called for lawsuits to stop pending research on long-term effects of prescription painkillers.